Tas; 7761. 
ROSA Serapuini. 
Native of Italy. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacra.—Tribe Rosza. 
Genus Rosa, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 625.) 
Rosa (Rubiginosee) Seraphini; frutex humilis, erectus, ramosissimus, ramis 
ramulisque crebre armatis, aculeis insequalibus faleato-decurvis compressis 
basi dilatatis, foliis 1-2 _ longis, petiolo brevi rhachique gracili, 
foliolis 7 parvis orbicularibus late ovatisve glanduloso-dentatis supra 
saturate viridibus, snbtus pallidis — inter nervos paucis, stipulis 
linearibus acuminatis, floribus solitariis ad 1} poll, diam., pedunculo 
brevi tuboque calycis ellipsoideo glaberrimis, sepalis petalis paullo breviori- 
bus patentibus parce glandulosis post anthesim reflexis appendicibus 
anguste oblongo-lanceolatis, petalis lete roseis, ovariis sericeo-pilosis 
pisiformibus rubris demum nigris sepalis persistentibus coronatis, 
R. Seraphini, Viviani, Fl. Corsic. Sp. Nov. p. 8; Fl. Inyb. Spec. p. 67 
(Serafini). Bertol. Fl. Ital. vol. v. p. 194. DU. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 625 
(Serafinti). Gussone Fl. Sic. Prodr. vol. i. p. 574; Fl. Sic. Synop.i. p. 564. 
Moris, Fl. Sardoa. vol. ii. p. 40. Arcang. Compend, Fl. Ital. p. 226. 
Crepin in Compt. Rend. Soe. Roy. Bot. Belg. 1892, p.88. Pojero, Fl. Sic. 
vol. i. pars II. p, 187. 
R. apennina, Woods, Tourist’s Flora, p. 123. 
R. cretica, var. Serafini, Wallr. Ros. Pl. Gen. p. 145. 
R. glutinose, Sibth. & Sm. forma, Parlat. Fl. Ital. vol. x. p. 26. 
R. graveolens, var. y. corsica, Gren. & Godr. Fl. Fr. vol. i. p. 561. 
R. parvifolia, Sanguin. Cent. Fl. Rom. p, 70 (ex Moris, l.c.). 
Rk. Seraphini is a dwarf rose of peculiar habit, closely 
allied to R. agrestis, Savi, which differs from it in habit, 
in the leaves narrowed to the tip, with many glands 
beneath, and in the eglandular reflexed caducous sepals. 
It was published as Seraphini and Serafini in the same 
year by its author, of which names the former is that 
usually adopted, though, according to a note by J. Gay in 
the Kew Herbarium, Serafino is that of the botanist after 
whom the species is named, The habitats recorded for it 
by Arcangeli are stony places above one thousand six 
hundred ft. elevation in the Apuan Alps, Corsica, Sar- 
dinia, and Sicily; and, for two varieties, the Maritime 
Alps. 
The specimen figured is from a plant raised from seed 
received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1894, from the 
Feprvaey Ist, 1901. 
